So if you want to visit a friend or see a show you can find out which bus to take, just like that?

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But what Jonathan Routh preferred to do was to dress up as a tree, wait at a bus stop and enquire which bus would take him to Sherwood Forest.

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And a bus journey from Bath to Midsomer Norton - which should take 90 minutes - ended up taking six hours because of the traffic problems.

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